Re: [PATCH] kill(-1,sig)

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* Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com) wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >
> > The new POSIX 1003.1-2001 is explicit about what kill(-1,sig)
> > is supposed to do. Maybe we should follow it.
>
> Well, we should definitely not do it in 2.4.x, at least not until proven
> that no real applications break.
>
> But I applied it to 2.5.x, let's see who (if anybody) hollers.

I had to back this change out of 2.5.1 in order to get a sane shutdown.
killall5 -15 is commiting suicide ;-(

cheers,
-chris
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